by Calvin Sun | Dec 20, 2022 | December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Bissau, the eponymous capital city of Guinea-Bissau. After a weeklong road trip across mid West Africa beginning in Dakar and as far north as the Mauritanian border at St. Louis, we rest our weary legs for 2 days here. From our lodgings at Casa Cacheu, we...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 19, 2022 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Border Crossing, December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, Getting that VISA, Guinea-Bissau, How Did You Do That?, Senegal, The Gambia, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Starting from an hour’s south of Banjul at a last minute villa I found on Booking.com in Old Yundum, we set out at 6:30am in the morning. Good timing because we started driving approximately 5 minutes right after the power went out in the house from what...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 18, 2022 | December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia
We take a break from the driving today; 3 days ago in St. Louis the group collectively had decided it would be better to break up the road trip south to Guinea-Bissau from Senegal and stay a night tonight in Banjul, the capital city of The...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 17, 2022 | Border Crossing, December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia, Uncategorized, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
This morning from Dakar we drive south. With no way to convince our driver Kemo to turn on the A/C and then finally getting his confirmation he did not get a car with A/C, we took a deep breath, reminded ourselves there are far worse fates in life,...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 15, 2022 | December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
Not Saint Louis, Missouri — we’re now kicking it in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saint-Louis island in Senegal, the former French capital city of both French West Africa and then French Mauritania in the early 20th century.After a brief and...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 14, 2022 | December 2022: Senegal, The Gambia, & Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After 2 days in Dakar, we began our drive up this morning at 10am to Saint Louis, the old French capital of Senegal located right on the northern border near Mauritania. Since our driver Kemo was not familiar with Senegal north of Dakar (it would be his first...
